Senior Principal Engineer, Innovation Lab (Remote)

Stryker; Michigan; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker Corporation is seeking an experienced Senior Principal Engineer to lead software efforts in the Enterprise Digital Technology Innovation Lab. You will drive architectural decisions, prototype new AI-enabled solutions, and guide cross-functional teams to accelerate value from ideas to pilots and production where appropriate.

You will mentor engineers, set engineering standards, and partner across cyber, data, and business teams to deliver scalable, secure systems while advancing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience with hands-on delivery and leadership.
• 8+ years in senior technical leadership roles such as Chief Engineer / Principal Engineer.
• 7+ years of full stack engineering across front-end, back-end, cloud, API, database, integration and DevOps.
• 5+ years architecting scalable, cloud-native enterprise systems.
• 3+ years of AI/ML or generative AI experience and AI-enabled applications.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architecture direction for Innovation Lab initiatives.
• Design, build, and review full stack software solutions and AI-enabled applications.
• Prototype concepts rapidly and validate ideas with business stakeholders.
• Establish engineering standards, development practices, and technical governance for the lab.
• Partner with ED&T, cybersecurity, architecture, data and business teams to accelerate innovation.
• Mentor engineers and help build the lab's long-term technical capabilities.
• Evaluate emerging technologies for applicability to Stryker.

Skills

TypeScript

JavaScript

React

Next.js

Angular

Vue

Node.js

Python

Django

.NET

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Serverless

CI/CD

IaC

DevSecOps

Observability

Job description

Work Flexibility: Remote or Hybrid or Onsite

What you will do:

As our Senior Principal Engineer, you will serve as the Enterprise Digital Technology Innovation Lab's lead software engineer and technical authority. You will be responsible for translating business problems and emerging opportunities into working prototypes, proofs of concept, pilots, and in some case even production ready solutions. You will be the senior/most technical resource within the Innovation Lab and will lead the technical delivery of multiple innovation initiatives across the enterprise. Additionally, the focus will be on accelerating experimentation, reducing time from idea to proof of value, and helping transition successful solutions into broader delivery teams when appropriate.

• Providing technical leadership and architecture direction for Innovation Lab initiatives

• Designing, building, and reviewing full stack software solutions and AI enabled applications

• Rapidly prototyping new concepts and validating ideas with business stakeholders

• Establishing engineering standards, development practices, and technical governance for the lab

• Partnering across ED&T, cybersecurity, architecture, data, and business teams to accelerate innovation efforts

• Mentoring engineers and helping build the lab's long-term technical capabilities

• Evaluating emerging technologies and determining their applicability to Stryker

What you need:

Required:

• A Bachelor's degree is needed for this position.

• 10+ years of progressive professional software engineering experience, with a proven record of hands on software delivery, senior technical leadership, and meaningful impact across complex software systems, products, platforms, or enterprise technology environments.

• 8+ years of senior technical leadership experience as a Chief Engineer, Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect, Software Director, Startup CTO, Founding Engineer, or equivalent senior technical leader.

• 7+ years of deep full stack engineering experience across modern front-end, back-end, cloud, API, database, integration, and DevOps technologies. The candidate must have hands on mastery of both front-end and back-end systems and be able to own features end to end, review code, make architecture decisions, and set the engineering quality bar for the team.

• 5+ years of experience architecting scalable, secure, cloud-native, enterprise-grade systems, including distributed systems, data-intensive applications, APIs, integrations, cloud services, and modern software platforms.

• 3+ years of recent applied AI, machine learning, or generative AI experience, including hands on experience building AI-enabled applications, prototypes, automations, agents, or internal tools.

Preferred:

• Strong hands on experience with modern software technologies such as TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Angular, Vue, Node.js, Python, Django, .NET, Java, Go, Rust, SQL, NoSQL, REST APIs, GraphQL, and event driven architectures.

• Strong cloud-native and DevOps experience, including AWS and/or Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, serverless architectures, microservices, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, infrastructure as code, secure deployment practices, and modern DevSecOps principles.

• Experience building AI-enabled solutions using large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, embeddings, prompt engineering, AI agents, model evaluation, workflow orchestration, semantic search, or AI-assisted development tools.

• Fluency with AI-native engineering practices, including the effective use of tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar AI coding assistants to accelerate software delivery while maintaining engineering discipline.

• Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous business problems from concept to working software quickly, especially in prototype-driven, startup-style, innovation lab, advanced engineering, or rapid delivery environments.

• Strong understanding of cybersecurity, privacy, data governance, identity and access management, secure architecture, responsible AI, and enterprise software risk management.

• Experience integrating with enterprise systems, internal data platforms, APIs, identity providers, business applications, and data sources while navigating access, security, privacy, governance and compliance constraints.

• Experience in medical technology, healthcare, life sciences, regulated software, digital health, sales enablement, field service, hospital operations, or enterprise healthcare systems.

• Prior experience in medtech, healthtech, financial services, aerospace, defense, or another regulated industry where security, privacy, quality, auditability, and compliance are critical.

• Familiarity with regulated software practices, including quality management systems, design controls, risk management, validation, auditability, traceability, and healthcare data privacy.

• Experience building or leading innovation labs, digital factories, rapid prototyping teams, advanced engineering groups, startup studios, internal product incubation teams, or enterprise AI teams.

• Experience with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Snowflake, Databricks, ERP systems, CRM systems, identity platforms, data warehouses, and business intelligence tools.

• Experience building software for sales representatives, commercial teams, internal operations, customer support, field service, business unit leaders, or enterprise IT organizations.

• Experience with product discovery, design thinking, lean experimentation, customer research, user experience design, and prototype validation.

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Biomedical Engineering, or a related technical field preferred.

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• USN: $155,900 - $259,700 USD Annual
• US5: $163,700 - $272,700 USD Annual
• US10: $171,500 - $285,700 USD Annual
• US15: $179,300 - $298,700 USD Annual
• US20: $187,100 - $311,600 USD Annual
• US30: $202,700 - $337,600 USD Annual

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Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.